A sea Anemone is a plant of the buttercup family, typically bearing brightly colored flowers. Anemones are widely distributed in the wild, and several kinds are popular garden plants. The name anemone comes from the Greek word for "windflower." According to Greek mythology, the anemone sprang from Aphrodite's tears as she mourned the death of Adonis. Thought to bring luck and protect against evil, legend has it that when the anemone loses its petals, it's a signal that rain is approaching. Still other mythology connects the anemone to magical fairies, who were believed to sleep under the petals after they closed at sunset. Perhaps it's because of this magical and prophetic tales that today in the language of flowers, anemones represent anticipation.
That was a mythical take on anemones while in the scientific realm is a water dwelling animals. They are related to coral and jellyfishes. The tube-like class. This animal is attached to the bottom of the ocean. There are tubular ending with oral tube, The size of these species could be little as 1 inch wide to 6 feet tall. A few ten thousands of tentacles are attached as well. Not all of these are grounded. Some float in the deep sea. The mouth of the sea anemone, is in the middle of the oral disc surrounded by tentacles, which are cells that function as a defense and as a means to capture prey. The part is called cnidocytes. They are small and contain toxins within them. With the slightest touch. It can cause the whole thing to explode. This also gives and shoots out venom to insects. The venom paralyzes the prey. Sea anemones are not a huge risk to humans but on rare occasions can be lethal with the toxins. The sea anemone eats shrimp and small fish.
The mouth acts a the emptying of the waste in the anemones because there is only a single opening. Waste and water come in one way and and leave the exact same. The digestive enzymes also helps the anemones have a stomach and will allow the species to pass by. This animal lacks a skeleton which is rare for animals especially sea creatures. The mouth usually controls its body that will help stabilize. The retraction of the tentacles help protect themselves.
The Sea creature does have sperm and eggs and once fertilized, it also instantly makes a new one. This is two reproduction processes. In sexual reproduction males release sperm to stimulate females to release eggs, and fertilization occurs. Asexual reproduction just breaks off and floats and makes a new location home. They do not move around because their living conditions do not need to be perfect to survive. If the place is dry or being attacked, they will swim to a new location and try to protect and start a new place there.
To reel in the Sea Anemones it is roughly $200-300 million dollars in import purposes. Fishermen only catches 4.1% of the time so the rare appearances in the net makes the big price for something like this. This is kind of a newer speicies because fossils are very rarely available.
Sea Anemone
A sea Anemone is a plant of the buttercup family, typically bearing brightly colored flowers. Anemones are widely distributed in the wild, and several kinds are popular garden plants. The name anemone comes from the Greek word for "windflower." According to Greek mythology, the anemone sprang from Aphrodite's tears as she mourned the death of Adonis. Thought to bring luck and protect against evil, legend has it that when the anemone loses its petals, it's a signal that rain is approaching. Still other mythology connects the anemone to magical fairies, who were believed to sleep under the petals after they closed at sunset. Perhaps it's because of this magical and prophetic tales that today in the language of flowers, anemones represent anticipation.
That was a mythical take on anemones while in the scientific realm is a water dwelling animals. They are related to coral and jellyfishes. The tube-like class. This animal is attached to the bottom of the ocean. There are tubular ending with oral tube, The size of these species could be little as 1 inch wide to 6 feet tall. A few ten thousands of tentacles are attached as well. Not all of these are grounded. Some float in the deep sea. The mouth of the sea anemone, is in the middle of the oral disc surrounded by tentacles, which are cells that function as a defense and as a means to capture prey. The part is called cnidocytes. They are small and contain toxins within them. With the slightest touch. It can cause the whole thing to explode. This also gives and shoots out venom to insects. The venom paralyzes the prey. Sea anemones are not a huge risk to humans but on rare occasions can be lethal with the toxins. The sea anemone eats shrimp and small fish.
The mouth acts a the emptying of the waste in the anemones because there is only a single opening. Waste and water come in one way and and leave the exact same. The digestive enzymes also helps the anemones have a stomach and will allow the species to pass by. This animal lacks a skeleton which is rare for animals especially sea creatures. The mouth usually controls its body that will help stabilize. The retraction of the tentacles help protect themselves.
The Sea creature does have sperm and eggs and once fertilized, it also instantly makes a new one. This is two reproduction processes. In sexual reproduction males release sperm to stimulate females to release eggs, and fertilization occurs. Asexual reproduction just breaks off and floats and makes a new location home. They do not move around because their living conditions do not need to be perfect to survive. If the place is dry or being attacked, they will swim to a new location and try to protect and start a new place there.
To reel in the Sea Anemones it is roughly $200-300 million dollars in import purposes. Fishermen only catches 4.1% of the time so the rare appearances in the net makes the big price for something like this. This is kind of a newer speicies because fossils are very rarely available.
Denzel Thomas
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http://wonderopolis.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sea-anemone_shutterstock_21850051.jpg
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/sea-anemone/
http://animal.discovery.com/marine-life/sea-anemone-info.htm
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